threadtogether

Well, how did I come up with that?  It  just jumped out of my mouth.  And now that I’ve ‘percolated’ on it, I find that the meanings are endless.  You know the whole Drum-Circle thing?  As we drum we are one?  Well, I feel the same way about needle-craft.  Women (and some men) have been sewing, weaving, hand-knitting and working with fiber and fabric (and fur pelts) for a long, long time.  And once it moved out of necessity (survival), it moved into creativity.   And here we are today …

So the threads that bind us – weaving our stories as we weave our yarn - a “yarn’ is also a kind of story – weaving people together – I’m in stitches means you’re laughing so hard you can’t stand it – common thread is kind of the way I feel about it.   And if you’re still in doubt, then look back into history and see that Quilting is one of the things that women used to do to share socially.  Think about it … Quilting Bee … (or Quilting Be …)  We are still doing this today.

I recently moved into a new community and found that my sewing machine power cords were packed away about 60 miles away.  As I started a journey to find some other cords (borrow, etc.) I found my way to a woman who has the local Quilting Bee club, and she loaned me a machine for free.  Well, it wasn’t exactly free, I committed to sewing a quilt top for her club.  Their club donates quilts to underprivileged babies - crack babies, etc.  I should have taken a picture of it but it never dawned on me that I would ever want to show it to anyone.  What was I thinking?

Oh, I can’t post this until I let y’all know that My Dear Friend A** (MDFA) helped me take the pre-cut quilt squares, put them together on her bed in an awesome design, and then taught me how to ‘chain stitch’ the pieces all together.  So it began …